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 Pelgrims (second from the right) in 1901 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Gustave Émile Eugène Pelgrims | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1878-06-14)14 June 1878 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Schaerbeek, Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 4 September 1960(1960-09-04) (aged 82) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Uccle, Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1895–1896 | Léopold FC | |||||||||||||
| 1896–1903 | Racing Club de Bruxelles | |||||||||||||
| 1903–1904 | Léopold FC | |||||||||||||
| 1904–1909 | Racing Club de Bruxelles | |||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1900 | Belgium Olympic | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1901 | Belgium XI (unofficial) | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Gustave Émile Eugène Pelgrims (14 June 1878 – 4 September 1960[1]) was a Belgianfootballer who competed in the1900 Olympic Games.[1][2] InParis he won a bronze medal as a member of amixed team representingBelgium that was mostly made up of students from theUniversité de Bruxelles.[1][2]
Gustave Pelgrims was born inSchaerbeek on 14 June 1878, as the son of Gustave Pelgrims (1841–1888) and Clémence Dailly (1855–1925).[1] He was the second of three children.[1]
Pelgrims married Angèle Vanbuylaere on 22 October 1906, but they had no children.[1]
Pelgrims began his football career atLéopold FC in 1895, at the age of 17, leaving the club at the end of the season to joinRacing Club de Bruxelles,[3] with whom he won four consecutiveBelgian championships between 1900 and 1903. He then returned to Léopold FC in July 1903 until June 1904, before rejoining the Racing Club of Brussels from 1904 to 1909.[3]
On 25 May 1902, Pelgrims joinedBeerschot AC for one match because the club was short on the squad for the final of the 1902Challenge International du Nord, which took place inTourcoing, France. He lost the match that he played 2–4 to rivalsAntwerp FC.[4][5]
Pelgrims represented theBelgium Olympic at the1900 Summer Olympics, featuring in the team's only game at the tournament againstClub Français, which ended in a 2–6 loss.[6]
In the following year, on 28 April 1901, Pelgrims played in the first-ever match of a Belgium national team at the1901 Coupe Vanden Abeele, which ended in an 8–0 trashing of a third-rate Dutch side.[7]
Pelgrims died inUccle on 4 September 1960, at the age of 72.[2]
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